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VBAC Possible with Growing Keloid Scar

Help please! I had an emergency C Section because baby is on breech position and had labour before getting a scheduled operation. My baby is 2 years old now and the keloid scar had become noticeably elevated. I also have another keloid scar which remarkably grew on my shoulder from a vaccination when I was just a little girl. I wonder if it's still possible to have a VBAC for mothers with developing keloid scars like mine

Yes it is certainly possible for a woman to have a VBAC even if she has a keloid scar. The keloid scar is just how the scar has healed on the outside but is not an indication of how the uterine scar has healed.

I hope that some of these resources on VBACs help you. Around 80% of women who try for a VBAC are able to achieve it and you would be carefully monitored in labour. The risk of a uterine scar rupture is very small (less than 0.5%) and an emergency c-section would be carried out if there were signs that this was at risk from occurring. I think you are right to consider a VBAC because c-sections carry certain risks (such as of increased risk of infection and increased chance of the baby having breathing problems).